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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
W. James
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Philosophical

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Serious development of the personality begins at the closet door.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
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An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: There is very little difference between one man and another but what little there is, is very important. This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.
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Mental fire is what won't burn real sticks mental water is what won't necessarily (though of course it may) put out even a mentalfire.
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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire, of deliberation, etc., that constantly pass and repass, and that constitute our inner life.
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Man lives for science as well as bread.
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Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings fame is a breath love is a cheat youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us our hour of triumph is what brings the void. Not the Jews of the captivity, but those of the days of Solomon 's glory are those from whom the pessimistic utterances in our Bible come.
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